Music From The Galaxies

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Release Date: 1991

Label: Island Records

All tracks use radio wave data from the UGC 6697 galaxy.
Excerpts from the cd liner notes:
"The natural radio waves from stars and galaxies are produced by the chaotic motion of high energy electrons: countless particle collisions and accelerations."
"UGC 6697 is one of the highest radio luminosity spiral galaxies. Located in Abell 1367, it is approximately 180 million light-years from earth."
"Every kind of celestial radiation can be represented by a stream of numbers. A special computer sound sysnthesis program called 'cmusic' was used to convert the radiations' frequency and intensity to audible form. After a variety of processing, this signal can be sent to a digital-to-analogue converter and played through conventional loudspeakers, or recorded directly onto digital tape or CD."

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